New Music Friday - September 27, 2024

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Mustafa - Dunya Watch: "SNL" Watch: "Old Life"
	Naima Bock - Below a Massive Dark Land Watch: "Further Away" Watch: "Kaley"
	Neva Dinova - Canary Watch: "Edge of Something" Watch: "Lonely Heart"
	Ravyn Lenae - Bird’s Eye Watch: "One Wish" (featuring Childish Gambino) Watch: "Pilot"
	SOPHIE - SOPHIE Watch: "Reason Why" (featuring Kim Petras & BC Kingdom) Watch: "One More Time" (featuring Popstar)

Other Full-Length Releases

Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God Watch: "Can U Hear" Watch: "Get Still"

Bilal - Adjust Brightness Watch: "Sunshine" Listen : "Adjust Brightness"

Chain Cult - Harm Reduction Watch: "What We Leave Behind" Watch: "Harm Reduction"

Christian Lee Hutson - Paradise Pop. 10 Watch: "After Hours" Listen : "Skeleton Crew"

Dean Spunt - Basic Editions Watch: "Gonzo Bop" Watch: "Confusion Is SysEx"

Efterklang - Things We Have in Common Watch: "Plant" (featuring Mabe Fratti) Watch: "Animated Heart" (featuring Sønderjysk Pigekor)

Gallant - Zinc. Watch: "Centigrade." (featuring Nao) Watch: "Coldstar."

Hayden Thorpe - Ness Watch: "They" Watch: "V."

Kate Bollinger - Songs from a Thousands Frames of Mind Watch: "Any Day Now" Watch: "To Your Own Devices"

Kimbra - Idols & Vices (Vol. 1) Watch: "I Wonder" (featuring Ivy Sole) Watch: "Keen" (featuring DRAM)

Liam Benzvi - …And His Splash Band Watch: "Other Guys" (featuring Blood Orange) Watch: "PTLSD" (featuring SSION)

Maxïmo Park - Stream of Life Watch: "Your Own Worst Enemy" Watch: "The End Can Be as Good as the Start"

Merce Lemon - Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild Watch: "Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild" Watch: "Backyard Lover"

Rahim Redcar - HOPECORE Watch: "DEEP HOLES" Listen : "ELEVATE"

Trace Mountains - Into the Burning Blue Watch: "In a Dream" Watch: "Friend"

Van Morrison - New Arrangements and Duets Watch: "Choppin Wood" Watch: "Someone Like You"

Xiu Xiu - 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips Watch: "Common Loon" Watch: "Veneficium"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Glasser - crux deluxe Watch: "Drift Slow" Listen : "Mass Love"

Interpol - Antics (The Twentieth Anniversary Edition) Watch: "Slow Hands" Listen : "Next Exit"

Show Me the Body - Corpus II EP II Watch: "Stomach" (featuring High Vis) Listen : "Shelter"

Sunflower Bean - Shake Watch: "Teach Me to Be Bad" Watch: "Shake"

New Music Friday - April 20, 2018

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Essential Full-Length Releases

DRINKS - Hippo Lite This is the second album from the duo comprised of Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley (aka White Fence) following 2015's Hermits on Holiday. It's named for where it was recorded, Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort in France. Watch: "Corner Shops" Listen: "Real Outside"

Kimbra - Primal Heart Maybe still best known for her feature on Gotye's "Someone That I Used to Know," Kimbra is a talented musician in her own right. Primal Heart is her third album. It sees her experimenting a bit with rap, and not doing too badly with it. Watch: "Top of the World" Watch: "Everybody Knows"

A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephants 14 years after their last record, Emotive, and eight years after reforming, Maynard Keynes' other project has released their fourth album. Watch: "TalkTalk" Watch: "Disillusioned"

Other Full-Length Releases

Alexis Taylor - Beautiful Thing Watch: "Oh Baby" Watch: "Beautiful Thing"

Chilly Gonzales - Other People’s Pieces

Sweet Valley - Eternal Champ II Watch: "Hit & Run" Listen: "Tunnel Rat"

Thievery Corporation - Treasures from the Temple Watch: "Voyage Libre" Listen: "San San Rock"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane Reissue Watch: "The Jean Genie" Listen: "Watch That Man"

Denmark Vessey - Sun Go Nova Watch: "Trustfall" (featuring Earl Sweatshirt) Listen: "Halal Avocado Toast"

The Flaming Lips - Scratching the Door: The First Recordings of the Flaming Lips Listen: "Scratching the Door" Listen: "Forever Is a Long Time"

Gang of Four - Complicit Watch: "Lucky" Listen: "Ivanka (Things You Can’t Have)"

Linda Ronstadt - Mad Love Reissue Watch: "Mad Love" Listen: "Girls Talk"

Little Dragon - "Best Friends"/"Sway Daisy" Listen: "Best Friends" Listen: "Sway Daisy"

Omni - "Sunset Preacher"/"Confessional" Listen: "Sunset Preacher" Listen: "Confessional"

Pete Townshend - Who Came First Remastered and Expanded Listen: "Let’s See Action" Listen: "Pure and Easy"

Tokyo Police Club - "New Blues" Watch: "New Blues"

The Who - Live at the Fillmore East 1968

New Music Tuesday - August 19, 2014

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New Full-Length Releases

Castanets - Decimation Blues My first exposure to Castanets was seeing 2004's Cathedral available to check out at the Bloomington Main Library. I was intrigued by the album artwork and picked the CD up. Over time, I realized the music didn't strongly appeal to me, but with this new record, I'm giving the band another try. After hearing just a few of the first tracks from the album, I knew I was more in love with their crazy folk style. Watch: "Tell Them Memphis" Listen: "Out for the West"

Electric Würms - Musik, Die Shwer Tu Twerk Electric Würms is a side project from Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips. The band was established as an outlet for music that was (somehow) too weird for the main project. The band's oddball association with Miley Cyrus is already starting to show through on the record's title, Musik, Die Shwer Tu Twerk translates (pretty much) to "music that's hard to twerk tu." Listen: "The Bat" Listen: "Transform"

Jason Feathers - De Oro When Justin Vernon isn't recording for his main project, Bon Iver; or one of his side projects, Volcano Choir or The Shouting Matches; or providing vocals for James Blake or Kanye West, he has yet another project. Here, he teams up with rapper Astronautalis, S. Carey, and Ryan Olson (of Gayngs) for his latest act, Jason Feathers.

jj - V jj is a Swedish indie pop band who became favorites of many music publications a few years ago with the release of their first single and album, nº 1 and nº 2. I never got around to checking them out at that time, but kept hearing their name pop up with nearly every new release of theirs. This time, I decided to jump into their music. And, yes, I do like it; indie pop seems too simple a description of their sound; it has a good beat and is a bit experimental. Watch: "All White Everything" Listen: "Dean & Me"

Kimbra - The Golden Echo Kimbra first rose to prominence providing duet vocals for Gotye's 2011 smash single "Somebody That I Used to Know." It was also around that time that she released her own debut record, Vows. The young New Zealander is now putting out her follow-up, full of catchy and upbeat pop songs. Watch: "90s Music" Watch: "Love in High Places"

Literature - Chorus Literature is a Philadelphia-based band with a sound reminiscent of a myriad of 1960s British rock and pop acts. The connection to 60s music is pretty strong; the band utilizes several recording techniques, such as true-tape flanging, which were created in that decade. Listen: "The English Softhearts"

Museum of Love - Museum of Love The end of LCD Soundsystem was sad for many fans of the iconic electronic band. Thankfully, the band lives on in other great acts, including Hot Chip, The Juan Maclean, and Museum of Love, which all include former members of the band. Museum of Love is made up of Soundsystem drummer Pat Mahoney and Dennis McNany. They released their first single, "Monotronic," about a year ago; this is their first album. Listen: "In Infancy"

Other New Releases

Captain Murphy - "Cosplay" Captain Murphy is the rapping alter-ego of producer and electronic musician Flying Lotus. Under this name, he is releasing the 11th entry in 2014's Adult Swim singles series. Watch: "Cosplay"

Julia Holter - "Don't Make Me Over"/"Hello Stranger" Julia Holter has become known for an experimental ambient sound with her dreamy, airy vocals; I wouldn't have guessed Dionne Warwick as one of her influences. She covers a song by the singer as an A-side to one of the tracks from her last album, Loud City Song, which itself is also an R&B cover (originally by Barbara Lewis). Listen: "Don't Make Me Over" Listen: "Hello Stranger"

Julia Holter - Tragedy Reissue Tragedy was Julia Holter's debut album, based on the play Hippolytus, which was originally released in 2011 (the album, not the play). Coming with the release of a couple of covers in her latest single; it's nearly the third anniversary of the record. Watch: "Finale"

Ryan Adams - 1984 Adams will be releasing his self-titled come-back album on September 9. But before that, he is putting out the follow-up to his 2003 single, "1974."

Zoot Woman - "Don't Tear Yourself Apart" Zoot Woman will be releasing their fourth album later this month. In anticipation of that release, they are putting out the first single from the record. Watch: "Don't Tear Yourself Apart"